Starmer poised to clash with unions over pay rise demands
LABOUR PM Keir Starmer is poised for a clash with the unions after downplaying the likelihood of real-terms pay rises for public sector workers...
Workers support Occupation!
EALING Hospital workers are ready to welcome the occupation of the maternity unit today. Today, the hospital management intends to commence turning away expectant mothers...
HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE! –warn BMA and Audit Commission
THE British Medical Association yesterday challenged the Blair government to say what will happen to chronically ill or emergency patients, ‘if the local hospital...
2,000 Out In Newham Unison Strike
Two thousand members of Newham UNISON held a one-day strike yesterday in defence of their sacked Branch Chair, Michael Gavan. Gavan told News Line: ‘I...
‘CONFRONT ROYAL MAIL’ – Dave Ward tells CWU conference
EMERGENCY Motion E3 dealing with a ballot for national industrial action was passed unanimously at the CWU Postal Section Conference in Bournemouth yesterday. The Motion,...
TUC condemns Trump’s attack on Venezuela
THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the UK’s three largest trade unions, Unison, Unite and GMB, yesterday condemned the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President...
UCU Fights Mass Sackings
The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...
THIS A WAR WE HAVE TO WIN! – postal workers tell News Line
THE programme of rolling strike action by the Communication Workers Union – in opposition to Royal Mail’s plans to cut wages, add five years...
Labour Is Ready To Abstain Once Again – In The Coming Brexit Vote
LABOUR leaders refused to confirm whether they would vote in favour of a Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU or abstain...
Corbyn limits his call to Rudd’s resignation
‘WE ARE talking about the environment created by her (PM Theresa May) as Home Secretary for six years when she knew full well of...
Over 10,000 workers and youth join Al Quds-Jerusalem Day!
OVER ten thousand workers students and youth joined the Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day demonstration in central London yesterday. The demonstration assembled outside Marble Arch Station...
Lansley pledges NHS privatisation!
Health Secretary Lansley yesterday outlined coalition plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS, announcing the White Paper titled Liberating the NHS. In his...
CUTS FOR THE DISABLED AND THE JOBLESS – but there’s billions for the bankers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to a gathering of businessmen in London to ‘intensify’ the government’s attacks on the Welfare State, whilst continuing...
THERE MUST BE NO COVER-UP – Binyam police probe must go right to top
Police are to investigate whether an MI5 officer was complicit in the torture of ex-Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, it was announced yesterday. The Attorney General,...
Occupy North Mid Hospital to stop closure
FOUR-HOUR waits in A&E at north Middlesex Hospital have increased by 380% while at the Royal Free Hospital in London, four-hour waits in A&E...
‘We will balance the books’ Tory Chancellor indicates tax hikes & cuts to come
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak, speaking at the Tory Party conference, assured the party that his main objective is to get the debt under...
Defend NHS With Occupations!
THE government yesterday sought to head off an eruption of demonstrations and occupations against the closure of wards, A&Es, and maternity, children’s and...
3 Years Of Guards Strikes
HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...
Workers pressure mounting but the TUC still won’t call a general strike!!
WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...
ENERGY PRICE RISE CONDEMNED – UNISON demands profits inquiry
Yet another energy supplier, E.On, yesterday announced huge increases in gas and electricity prices to domestic consumers. It is hiking gas prices by 15...
Nurses and busworkers unite to bring down the Tory government
RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...
Richest are 30% better off!
‘THIS situation cannot be allowed to continue,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday in response to this year’s Sunday Times Rich...
Bank cuts rate to 4.25% – its second cut this year
THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...
MPs SPLIT ON BREXIT BILL!
OPENING the debate in the House of Commons on the EU Withdrawal Bill, Brexit Secretary, David Davis, said the bill was ‘the next step...
Victimisation At Carillion
Carillion workers were supported by Unite workers from Honda and BMW and officials from GMB yesterday lunch time, outside The Great Western Hospital in...
Triple Strike To Keep Train Guards
TRAIN drivers and guards were on strike in three parts of the country simultaneously yesterday, with Southern, Northern and Merseyside RMT drivers and guards...
HEATHROW CLEANERS FEAR FOR THEIR JOBS says the Unite trade union
LOW PAID cleaners, employed by multi-million pound outsourcing company Mitie at Heathrow Airport, have been left fearing for their jobs after the company reneged...
Cbi Calls For Two-Year Wage Freeze
Public sector trade union Unison, yesterday condemned the bosses’ organisation, the CBI, for calling for a two year public sector pay freeze. Unison...
Strip Capita Of NHS Contract!
STRIP private outsourcing giant Capita of its NHS contract, doctors’ union the BMA demanded after the shocking news broke yesterday that more than 3,500...
GPs discuss primary care crisis
THE crisis in primary care was the topic of an open microphone discussion at the LMC GPs conference in York yesterday morning. Speaker after...
Johnson speaks as troops go in
‘IT would be fatal if this sense of progress over vaccines was now to breed any kind complacency,’ Tory PM Boris Johnson said yesterday...
Cwu Strike Ballot!
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday said that its 16,000-strong Royal Mail membership in London, covering 159 workplaces in the Greater London...
Israeli bulldozers demolishing the homes of Palestinians is a war crime!
ISRAELI bulldozers yesterday demolished Palestinian homes in Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, southeast of Tubas city. Mu’taz Besharat, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement activities in Tubas,...
Israeli Missile Attack On Gaza
Yesterday afternoon, Israeli military forces attacked Gaza from the land, sea and air. Aircraft launched two missile strikes against the Palestinian presidential headquarters in Gaza...
Hounslow Unison To March With Gg Locked-Out Workers
THE Hounslow local government Unison branch banner will be with the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers banner on the TUC May Day march through London...
SACKED! – one hour’s notice at BMW Oxford while Unite trade union just looks...
Agency workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford erupted in fury yesterday after 850 of them, a third of the Cowley plant workforce, were...
Schools facing financial cliff edge! – warning from IFS
THE GOVERNMENT’S new National Funding Formula will see schools facing a ‘financial cliff edge’, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned yesterday. It warned that...
Labour May End Secure Tenancies – Attack On Council Housing Condemned By Ucatt And...
CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has labelled proposals by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), to end secure tenancies and all other current council tenancies in...
Don’t Privatise Hinchingbrooke!
Public sector union Unison yesterday warned that Circle Healthcare’s takeover of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgshire could lead to a second Southern Cross crisis. Unison head...
9-hour waits to transfer a patient into hospital! Huge crisis hits the NHS
Ambulance services are under ‘unprecedented pressure’ Tracy Nicholls, chief executive of the College of Paramedics said yesterday morning, with hand-over delays at a scale...
41 Heathrow Airport Limited strikes
UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...
North Kensington Workers Fighting Racism!
FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...
‘Unite Must Call All Of Its Members Out!’
‘CALL the airport out!’ striking worker Carlos Rodriguez said at the rally outside the union Unite’s headquarters on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport yesterday. 4,000...
‘whipps X Will Not Close!’
OVER 70 hospital staff, patients, supporters and trade unionists held a rally outside the threatened Whipps Cross District General Hospital in Walthamstow, north London...